Rebels’ northern exposure has bonded team, says sharpshooter Kerrigan
Cork had been notoriously bad on the road in the spring in past campaigns but they reversed that trend this year. Monaghan and Derry were both overturned with a point to spare, and while they succumbed to Tyrone, it was a match where they played the best football and the concession of messy goals was their undoing. In recent weeks when Cork embarked on the qualifier circuit, they took inspiration from those early season travels according to Paul Kerrigan.
A Sunday afternoon in Wexford Park with the rain spitting down and a Saturday night in the Gaelic Grounds under the floodlights were tricky tasks, but not insurmountable. He said: “We really enjoyed the league games going up to the north. We’d great bonding sessions and those wins helped improve us as a team.
